History: Chapter 3 Review

A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony.

• charter

• headright

• burgess

• joint-stock company

A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.

• headright

• burgess

• joint-stock company

• charter

A 50-acre grant of land given to the colonial settlers who paid their own way.

• joint-stock company

• headright

• burgess

• charter

Elected representative to an assembly.

• charter

• hearight

• burgess

• joint-stock company

To disagree with or oppose an opinion.

• dissent

• persecute

• tolerance

• charter

To mistreat a person or a group on the basis of their beliefs.

• charter

• dissent

• persecute

• tolerance

The ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors.

• persecute

• enforce

• policy

• tolerance

A landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land.

• charter

• patroon

• ethnic

• pacifists

People opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes.

• charters

• policy

• patroons

• pacifists